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Vair:
I have (or had) a semi-functional mini 2g. It suicided itself (threw itself into the toilet) a few months ago. A couple of days ago I discovered that it was working again but that the LCD was still busted. I figured that I could still use it if I loaded rockbox with speech support.

After a number of attempts I got the rbutil to recognise it as an iPod (on a 10.4 mac here and an originally Mac formatted iPod) and loaded it up. Everything looked OK but after I ejected and disconnected it, the backlight stayed on. No amount of holding down the menu button would turn off the backlight. When I plugged it back into the USB port, nothing happened: backlight stayed on nothing mounts. I popped open the terminal to see if I could find it in /Volumes and there was a folder in there with the right name but, it seems, that's all it was. A folder, containing the .rockbox folder. I removed it, reconnected the iPod and... nothing.

So, I put the iPod on a shelf overnight (makes a cute nightlight with the backlight stuck on) just to see if letting it decharge would make a difference but nada. Plugged into the box today, it just powers on the backlight and sits there like an overpriced USB lamp.

So, sorry for the long story and thanks for reading. Does anyone have any ideas about how I can get the computer to recognise the mini? I'd love to get rockbox running on it, just for the kicks, but I'd settle for a working USB storage device.

Chronon:
A first thing to try if it gets stuck like that would be the reset key combination (Menu + Select).  See if you can get it to boot and shut down properly after you have reset it.

Vair:
It's not, as far as I can tell, responding to the manual reset. I've tried it a number of times now. The backlight stays stuck on and I don't hear anything through the headphones (such as a faint click) which might suggest that it's resetting. I have the voice files installed (theoretically) so, even if it's resetting into RB, I should expect to hear something, right? If it's working that is?

In case the backlight is just plain stuck on and the unit is silently resetting, I've tried holding down the MENU+SELECT buttons for different periods of time and sliding the HOLD switch to ON but I haven't had any success with that approach yet.

Someone has suggested to me that if I can't get it to reset via the scrollwheel, I might be able to reset it by disconnecting the battery. I'm wondering if I could leave it to discharge (backlight goes out when left alone overnight) and try to get it to load the apple firmware by turning hold ON before charging it back up?

Vair:
Well! That worked - discharged rather sooner than I expected and I gave it a shot. I can now see the iPod on the computer and in iTunes. I took a look in the disk and the .rockbox folder was empty so I assume the rbutil installed rockbox in that mysterious folder I found in /Volumes with the same name as the iPod instead of on the iPod itself.

I'm also assuming that the inability to reset the iPod is a problem with the iPod hardware itself rather than rockbox.

I'm going to play around with this more later and see if I can get things working properly. Until then, thanks for your patience ;)

Chronon:
You mentioned that it was formerly an HFS+ formatted iPod.  How did you convert it to FAT32?

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